Descriptor
| Age Differences | 2 |
| Discrimination Learning | 2 |
| Language Acquisition | 2 |
| Association (Psychology) | 1 |
| Bilingualism | 1 |
| Comprehension | 1 |
| Contrastive Linguistics | 1 |
| English (Second Language) | 1 |
| French | 1 |
| Infant Behavior | 1 |
| Infants | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedCasasola, Marianella; Cohen, Leslie B. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Six experiments examined infants' ability to associate nonsense words with two causal actions: pushing and pulling. Eighteen-month-olds, but not 14-month-olds, formed word-action associations. Fourteen-month-olds discriminated a change in label but not a change in action when the other was held constant. When language labels were replaced with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Comprehension, Discrimination Learning
Direct linkSundara, Megha; Polka, Linda; Genesee, Fred – Cognition, 2006
To trace how age and language experience shape the discrimination of native and non-native phonetic contrasts, we compared 4-year-olds learning either English or French or both and simultaneous bilingual adults on their ability to discriminate the English /d-[delta]/ contrast. Findings show that the ability to discriminate the native English…
Descriptors: Language Enrichment, Monolingualism, French, English (Second Language)
